Chirkunda Refractory Industries (Jharkhand)

Introduction

Chirkunda, in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand, has a large number of industrial units-most of them MSMEs-as the area is rich in mineral resources such as coal, lime stone, fire clay, china clay, granite, stone and sand. Among the industries located in and around Chirkunda is a 100-year-old cluster of 129 refractory units, of which 120 units use down draft (DD) kilns, and the remaining 9 units use tunnel kilns. The refractory products from the cluster are used across the country, with over 95% of products sold outside the state. The primary domestic market includes large steel manufacturing industries located within 200 kilometres of Chirkunda such as TISCO (Digwadih), TELCO (Jamshedpur), IISCO (Jamadoba), Bokaro Steel, SAIL (Durgapur), and Alloy Steels Plant (Durgapur). A small quantity of refractory products is also exported to neighbouring countries.

Number of MSMEs

129

Energy consumption

Low

Main fuels

Coal, petcoke, electricity, diesel

Production & turnover

102,960

Total energy consumption (toe)

23,674

Leading industry association(s)

• Jharkhand Small Industries Association http://www.jsia.co.in/

Energy efficiency initiatives

• TERI-SDC Partnership: Scaling up Energy Efficient Technologies in Small Enterprises (EESE) http://www.sameeeksha.org/index.php?option=com_projects&task=level&title=EESE&id=41

Cluster profile

http://sameeeksha.org/pdf/clusterprofile/Chirkunda-Refractory-Industries-Jharkhand.pdf

Other resources

• MSME Development Institute (MSME-DI), Dhanbad